This report gives a brief summary of the textual analysis of the KD Interview on Endometriosis.

Frequency Analysis

The most common adjectives, phrases and pairs of words are displayed below.

A network of the most frequent consecutive word pairs (bigrams) is shown below.

Topic Extraction

A plot of words most associated with one of 3 topics are shown below.

Topic model visualisations are split into two sections:

This visualisation is interactive, hover over each topic number to view the words in each topic, or select each word to view which topics it appears.

https://nicolednisbett.github.io/#topic=0&lambda=0.6&term=

Sentiment Analysis

The wordcloud below gives the most popular words associated with positive and negative sentiments in the survey. Specific comments which are associated with the most popular sentiments are listed below.

The NRC sentiment lexicon uses categorical scale to measure 2 sentiments (positive and negative), and 8 emotions (anger, anticipation, disgust, trust, joy, sadness, fear, and suprise). Examples of words and comments in these sentiment categories are below. In this interview, the majority of submissions were trust but also categorised as anticipation, positive and joy.

Hover over the plot below to read the content of the comments within each sentiment category.

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##        anger anticipation      disgust         fear          joy 
##   0.08333333   0.12500000   0.06250000   0.08333333   0.12500000 
##     negative     positive      sadness     surprise        trust 
##   0.10416667   0.12500000   0.10416667   0.06250000   0.12500000

An example of a comment categorised as anticipation

Well, I thought how it was laid out was really good, because normally there’s questions and boxes to tick and a lot of our statements don’t normally fit into those boxes. So I thought it was good in the sense that it was very open and you could just write down your answers rather than tick boxes. In was relatively short, I gave up on one recently because there was just too much, so I thought it was about the right size and it was quite open-ended so you could put down whatever you wanted. Yeah, it was very very simple, quick and easy!

An example of a comment categorised as positive

One hundred percent. Yeah, it’s made me feel a bit more important now. What I’ve been though over the last few years where I can’t, you know, I couldn’t put into words. I am sat here with a friend who is pretty much the only person that knows everything, every single thing that I have been though. Sorry, I’ve lost my train of thought now…

An example of a comment categorised as trust

I will fill out whatever I can, in terms of when it comes to endometriosis I’m really passionate about it even though I’m feeling much better and what I went though still affects me, so yeah so it’s not like im better and everything’s fine and I can carry on, it does still affect me. So I just want to help out as much as I can. I’ll fill out anything to try and spread awareness.

An example of a comment categorised as joy

Erm… I would like to be, yeah I think I am. I’ve only just felt well enough really to, I kind of… after my surgery I kinda didn’t really want to… hear about endometriosis for a few months and now I’ve kind of, I’m feeling a bit better I am trying to get involved more within groups and Endometriosis UK. I’ve got back in touch with them, I’m trying to help my employers… at work with it all and they’re understanding of it all, so yeah, I am now. Now that’s I’ve got my health back.

An example of a comment categorised as negative

Yeah I know, bless her - Ethel, she was called. And I basically got reprimanded for looking ill and told to wear more make up. I was told to wear less make up, yes, to look less sick. And she knew at that point that I had stage endometriosis, that I was still ploughing on with it. And apparently she had endometriosis as well, but apparently she just got on with it. Fancy being told off for looking too ill.